Know My Name
Ranked #3 in Sas, Ranked #4 in 2019 — see more rankings.
She was known to the world as Emily Doe when she stunned millions with a letter. Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail after he was found sexually assaulting her on Stanford's campus. Her victim impact statement was posted on BuzzFeed, where it instantly went viral--viewed by eleven million people within four days, it was translated globally and read on the floor of Congress; it inspired changes in California law and the recall of the judge in... more
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Marian Keyes Oh! So GREAT! If you're able, PLEASE read her powerful book. https://t.co/3itlgrS7Mz (Source)
Laura I. Gómez Finished Chanel Miller's book. My eyes and soil are still raw from emotion. What a powerful memoir. (Source)
Charlie Brinkhurstcuff Chanel Miller's book is breathtaking and painful (Source)
Mark Athitakis The thing that is really remarkable to me about Know My Name is the depth of self-interrogation that Chanel Miller does throughout this book. There is a lot of questioning, because she is forced to do it due to the kind of questions that she is getting by Brock Turner’s defense lawyers, who are trying to cast aspersions on her. She realizes that there are so many attempts to reframe her as a person that it is clear that she has had to work very, very hard emotionally, not just to understand her own feelings and emotions and experiences, but to find a way to articulate them that is clear. (Source)
Rankings by Category
Know My Name is ranked in the following categories:
- #77 in Autobiography
- #46 in Crime
- #86 in Culture
- #44 in Feminism
- #65 in Intellectual
- #37 in Memoir
- #32 in Quarantine
- #74 in Sociology
- #39 in Trauma
- #29 in True Crime
- #68 in True Story
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